Annals of Alaska–The Hell With Selling Cookies!: While girl scouts in the lower 48 conduct bake sales and go door-to-door, the tough little ladies up in Alaska have other things to do–such as trapping and skinning beavers. The thirteen girls of Troop 34, aged 10-12, are preparing their traps, sharpening their knives and fending off the outraged cries of animal rights activists. The bureaucrats at Alaska Fish & Game consider the large beaver population a problem, because the beavers are doing what beavers naturally do: build dens and dam waterways, which on occasion causes rivers and stream to flood beyond their banks (Oh, no!). Some anti-beaverites also claim that the beavers and their dams are contributing to excessively warm winters (Huh?). Anyhow, the geniuses at Fish and Game decided they’d get children to do their dirty work, and created a “Take a Kid Trapping” program so schoolkids could get their hands bloody and learn the realities of living in the wild. PETA and the usual suspects are raising a big hue and cry over the program. As for the girls, they are planning to tan the hides to make mittens and thumbing through beaver meat recipes…..



Will PETA-Pammy Get Involved?: Pam Anderson, beaver…Don’t get me started, but it will be a caption writer’s dream come true